Here we go again!

Here we go again. Back in the plus 110 kg category! Time to start over, and what better time than the month I am turning 30 in. It's been one crazy year. Very busy, on all fronts, at the job, at home, and on the social scene.

I am feeling it, and now is as good a time as ever to start transforming and blogging a little bit more, even if it is just once a week.

June wont be less busy, but neither will any other of the months  left in the year. So I have decided to try and change my lifestyle again, and all that goes with it.

Hopefully I will be 99kg's somewhere in December. That's the goal, that is not asking to much from myself.

So another Label, another challenge, 7 months to go, lots to loose, more to gain. Much More.

L8r
W

Screw resolutions - this is happening this year...

I am making this list, and my plan is to tick them off is the year goes by. I hope you all have a fantastic 2014 - full of good health, great weight loss, and may all your biggest dreams come true.

My dream is to be able to pull lines through all of the following before 1 January 2014.

1. Weigh less than 90 kg's.
2. Stop smoking for good.
3. Do a half marathon.
4. Loose my gut for good.
5. Write a short story, book, play, something.
6. Save enough to go to Mauritius without debt in November.

That is it.

W

Yello, yep, I am still around

And it is going great. Unbelievably great, so great, that I figure that before we say hello to December, I might actually be able to post a magical number on that "the K's I have shed page". It's been tough, but it is summer, and I am swimming every night, I am eating well, I have had the odd obstacle, the odd party, and the odd relapse cheese burger. 95% of it has been great though, I am doing really well, I so want to tell you where I am weight loss wise, but I can't, I promised myself when I enter my weight again, it will be to numbers, a point, and that is it, if that is 99.9 than I will be 99.9% happy. When I first started blogging and toying with the idea of loosing weight that was the number. Get your ass down to 99.9kg's, then well reboot and pick a new target. I was at 114.7kg's when I decided to make 99.9kg's a target. Many beers, burgers, workouts and blowouts and more than a year later, I am not far off, it is reachable, so reachable that I can get there within this month. I know I haven't been blogging much, but I have been reading a few of yours religiously. To Josh, over at 700 Pounds is as bad as it sounds. Thanks for the inspiration, it led to perspiration, which led to weight loss. To Natalie, at path to petite. Thanks for also struggling, also juggling a billion things, also living life and getting it done. You guys kept me going. It's weird, I am a popular guy, with a lot of friends, but to me this weight loss thing is very personal, and it's nice to share it with all of the people that read my blog. Here is no masks, no excuses, and just the truth. I wont blog again until I get to my 99.9kgs. SO here is hoping that I will be back soon, in the meantime, keep on going on.

W
Out

The week in review - it's been great

It's been the most healthy, active, great workout week that I have had in the last 10 years. Hand down. Easy.

I worked in 3 Cross Fit sessions. All 3 were hectic, and left me terribly sore. I did 500 rope skips last night. I am feeling sore and tired and achy and excited and proud all at the same time.

I ate great, and I mean really great. I drank lots of water, I had no sugars, I was a machine this week.

82 DAYS

That's what's left in my own little 100 day challenge. If I have another 82 days like the last 5 than I will be a mean, lean, fighting machine come 11 December.

Weigh in time on Monday morning. I am looking forward to it and I am super excited. I know I lost weight these first 18 days. I just don't know how much. I am deliberately leaving the weigh in till Monday morning in the hope that it will help me behave this weekend and hopefully work in another workout or two and eat clean.

It's happening.

See you on Monday.

Have a great weekend.

L8r

W

CROSSFIT AND PROGRESS

As promised, I did my first Cross Fit Workout last night. So here is some feedback.

When we arrived and I saw the program, I honestly figured that it would be a breeze. We did the following in 1 minute reps with 1 minute rests in between each exercise. he idea was to do 5 sets of each.

We started off with 12 minutes on the spinning bikes, and then:

1. Lunges - 60 seconds of lunging to 90 degrees and back up, there is no resistance, only body weight.
2. Followed by 60 seconds rest.
3. Push ups - as many as you can do in 60 seconds.
4. Followed by 60 seconds rest.
5. Box Jumps - you basically jump onto a box that's about knee high for 60 seconds.
6. Followed by 60 seconds rest.
7. Weight Lifting - 60 seconds of lifting a 20kg bar from chest to overhead.
8. Followed by 60 seconds rest.
9. Dumbbell Swings - 60 seconds of swinging a 10 kg kettle ball from the floor to chest height.

And that was that, I managed 3 sets of each. I am properly sore today, but it is a good sore.

Eating is going brilliantly, and I will start taking some protein shakes to help with recovery.

I am now signed on to do 3 sessions a week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Looking forward to it actually, and hoping to do some cardio and light weight training on my own on the off days.

It's going good!

L8r

W

100 DAYS - Let's do this

Yep, I know I put some things down that I want to do yesterday. Blog More, eat healthy, exercise, loose weight, all the usual.

Then I started playing around with dates, and found out that if I start my journey on Monday, the 2nd of September, and go on for 100 days, I will be done on my wedding anniversary, the 10th of December 2013.

So there it is, it is 100 days to blog more, do more, loose more, get fit and get healthy.

I will do my best to blog more about the journey, and to see how much I can loose, and to turn my lifestyle around.

In other news, we are renovating our house, which is nice, we are building an exterior wall and taking down the palisades. Painting the house, and renovating a few things. We are using the old palisades to make 2 separate enclosures, so that we can give our garden a break form the dogs and also get that looking pretty. The dogs are going mad with all the painters and builders around the house, and hopefully they can finish up within three weeks.

I played some golf yesterday, it was nice summer like weather and a really nice round. I can see that I have not been playing much though! It was still fun, I did realise that I really do need to work out more as I am pretty unfit and got tired with about 4 holes left, which really did not help my already struggling round!

The wife and a friend has taking up cross fit, she seems to be enjoying it but complained big time this morning of a sore everything, especially legs. I still envy her drive and motivation. Hopefully I can also get on that band wagon.

Well, that's that for August then, Sunday is September, spring time, and time to make the change.

It's 100 days,

Let's to this!

L8r

W

I am challenging myself...again

I like setting myself some challenges, so here goes another one.

I have realised again that I won't be having a obligation free month soon, and that I have to work around my social, work and other obligations if I want to succeed.

The following month is pretty relaxed with only a hunting trip this Thursday to Sunday - the rest will be pretty relaxed and there are not to many parties on the horizon.

I will call this the 8 - 8 Challenge, as I will be doing it from the 8th of July until the 8th of August.

I have decided to use everything I have learned on my diet journey, and rather than googling a new diet and workout plan, I have created my own, and I will stick to these rules and see what happens in the next month.

Here is what I want to do:

• 5 Cardio sessions of at least 35 minutes from Monday to Sunday

I got up this morning, it was very cold, I did a nice 35 minute walk/jog. I will do this 5 times a week, and hopefully I can get to more jogging and less walking soon.

• 4 weight/gym Workouts from Monday to Sunday

I have a very nice home gym, I have free weights, I have balance balls, I have a bench press, I will do 4 of these sessions per week. Not only does weight workouts really get me sweating, but I also tend to loose more weight when I do weight training.

• Drink Water

I know I loose weight when I drink water, I will drink water, this is probably the easiest of all the rules I am setting myself.

• Go Low Carb High Protein

The only times I have really lost weight and kept it off was when I went low carb high protein. If I can cut out the white breads/pastas etc. I know I will loose weight.

• Eat Breakfast

I don't do breakfast, I will now, even if it is just a bowl of FutureLife in the mornings.

• Cut the Sugars

No fuzzy drinks, no sweeteners, no cheating.

• Protein Shakes

Not every day, but every now and again as a meal replacement. It fills me up big time, and definitely helps with recovery after a tough workout. I will stick to USN dietfuel mostly, but may have a protein shake every now and again

• Blog More

I want to make more time for blogging, and I will do my best to do so during this month.

That is it, I will be posting my starting weight tomorrow morning and let's see what happens during the month.

Hope you all have a good week.

L8r
W

the going is tuff, but the tuff gets going

I am battling, but I am still surviving. Have not done a weigh in and have a massive cold. I am hoping to recover soon, would like to go running again on Thursday. Everything else is going good. I have a nice long weekend to look forward to at the in-laws farm. It is about a 3 hour drive, and we will be chilling from Friday and only coming back on Monday, which is a public holiday. My wife bought me the coolest present ever, a Garmin Forerunner 310XT. I am charging it now, but will definitely be using it. It comes with all kinds of goodies, including a heart rate monitor, which I am pretty chuffed about. It also has GPS and all the other features. It's a pretty amazing training companion if I go by what those who have one say on the interwebs.

So I am away from home this weekend, and next weekend I am heading to Joburg on Friday with some friends for a high speed driving experience on Kyalami, and then we will watch the Boks play on Saturday at Loftus. I'll probably stay behind and attend a meeting in Jozi that I heard about yesterday. So I should be coming back on Tuesday. I have not really had a chill out weekend in 6 weeks, so I am looking forward to the weekend of the 28th!

I will pack my running shoes and make sure I get some training done at least 3 times a week, I think it will be nice to run in different scenery and in a different location for a change.

Have a good Tuesday!

l8r

w

It's getting easier...and harder

So today I did 4.5km of 3 min running 3 min walking, at one hell of a pace. It was by far the hardest workout I have done in the last 5 years. The legs are hurting, but I got through it, although we changed it up to walk 200m run 200m for the last kilo and a half, I was just way to far gone to continue on that 3 min pace. I feel good, and it has been a hectic morning at work. Although my legs feel busted I definitely have a lot more energy. I weighed in at 104kg's this morning, so it is coming off slowly, it is only 4.1kg's to that magical 99.9kg's mark. And I am super excited, it's all good.

Food wise it is going way better than expected. I think working out makes me think twice about what I eat, I have not had any carbs, and I am having some salads, meats, etc. I have been doing good with my water consumption.

Going on a bit of a guys trip this weekend, but more on that tomorrow. Normally I screw up food and drinks wise on these weekends, but I think this time it may be a different story.

See you tomorrow,

l8r
w

THIS IS THE START I NEEDED TO THIS WEEK

Welcome to the 22nd week of the year, they seem to be flying by! This morning, I truly did not want to get out of bed, my alarm went off at 5:10, so that we can start our run/walk at 5:30. I did get up, and I did go out, and I did another 40 minutes of run/walk. My legs are hurting, but I am feeling super. The feeling you get after a good workout is great, and I am hoping it stays this way, Progress is being made. I am loosing weight, I have not been back on the scale but will be soon, I will weigh 99kg's again very soon, the first time in at least 6 years. It is happening, I am moving forward. This is life, and it is great.

Stay Classy World,

W